Horton Park railway station was a railway station on the Queensbury-Bradford section of the Queensbury Lines which ran between Bradford, Keighley and Halifax via Queensbury.
Horton Park | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Great Horton, City of Bradford England |
| Coordinates | 53°47′05″N 1°46′14″W / 53.78464°N 1.77056°W |
| Grid reference | SE152320 |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | Bradford and Thornton Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Northern Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 23 October 1880 | Station opened |
| 15 September 1952 | Station closed for regular passenger services |
| August 1972 | closed completely |
The station was built near to the Bradford Park Avenue football ground.[1] It opened for passengers in 1880 closed for regular passenger trains in 1952 but remained open to special trains on match days until 1955. The station had a large goods yard which kept it open like the City Road Goods Branch until August 1972 when the yards and branch closed and the tracks were lifted.[2] The station remained in place along with its concrete sign until 2005 when the station was demolished to make way for a carpark for the new Al-Jamia Suffa-Tul-Islam Grand Mosque.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Horton | Great Northern Railway Queensbury lines |
Manchester Road |
References
edit- ^ "Location". Bradford FC. BFC. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ Armour, Chris. "Horton park". Disused Stations. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
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